Com bin ati on-tool



(No Model.)

A. J. BRYANT.

UOMBINATION TOOL.

N0; 401,327. Patented Apr. 16, 1889.

I mmnmmw UNITED STATES PATENT @EEiQE.

ANDRElV J. BRYANT, OF IVINTON PLACE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS S. SPIVEY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

COMBINATION-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,327, dated April 16, 1889.

Application filed September 13, 1888. Serial No. 285,267. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it 11mg concern.-

Be it known that I, ANDREW J. BRYANT, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at XViuton Place, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination-Tools, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention comprises a combination-tool that is capable of being used either as a hatchet, hammer, nail-puller, pliers, wire-cutter, nut-wrench, tack-puller, or screw-driver, the peculiar construction of said tool and the various methods of handling it being hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved combination-tool, the levers of the same being open and their closed position indicated by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the hatchet detached from said levers. Fig. 3 is an enlarged horizontal section of the tool, taken at the line Y Y of Fig. 1. Fig. i is an enlarged sectionized plan of the wire-cutting appliances of said tool, said section being taken at the line Z Z of Fig. 1. Figs. 5 and 6 are elevations of portions of the pair of levers separated from the hatchet.

The principal member of the tool is a hatchet, consisting of the blade A, butt or poll I3, and a nail-pulling slot, C, which member may be of any desired size, shape, and material. Instead of an eye to receive an ordinary handle, this hatchet has on its opposite side cylindrical sockets D D, to admit the diskshaped joint-plates E E of a pair of levers, F F, which joint-plates are pivoted to said hatchet by a bolt, G, while said levers perform the functions of a handle for the tool. Projecting from the upper edge of plate E is a plier-jaw, II, supplemented by a similar jaw, 11, on the other plate, E, said jaws being rabbeted, as seen atI I in Fig. i, to prevent them coming in contact with the cutter-bit J when said jaws are closed. This bit J projects from the upper edge of the socketed portion of the hatchet, as seen in Fig. 2.

notches in the lovers F F, for the purpose of grasping nuts, bolt-heads, (350. M is a screw K K andL L aredriver at the end of lever F, and N is a claw or tack-puller at the extremity of the other lever, F.

To use this tool either as a hatchet, hammer, or naihpuller, the levers F F are closed, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, the rabbeted portions I I of the jaws Ii II allowing the latter to come in contact with each other, but preventing them striking the cutter-bit J. These closed levers now serve as handles for the tool and enable it to be used either for splitting, hammering, or nail-pullin g in precisely the same manner as an ordinary hatchet, the bearing of the joint-plates E E againstt-he walls of sockets D D serving to relieve the pivot G from any severe strain.

To use the tool as apair of pliers or pinchers, the jaws H II are opened to grasp the article, and then closed against it by simply drawing the levers F F together, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. For cutting wires or light rods the jaws are opened and the wire is inserted either at the right or left of bit J, as maybe the most convenient, after which act said jaws are closed. Consequently the appropriate j aw forces the wire against the sharp edge of the bit, and thus performs the cutting operation, the double edge of said bit greatly enhancing its durability. \Vhen used as a wrench or spanner, the nutor bolt-head is grasped at its corners by either set of notches K L or K L, according to the diameter of the nut or bolt-head, the long levers F F affording sufficient purchase to enable the tool to perform the duties of a wrench or spanner.

For inserting or withdrawing screws the driver M is employed in the usual manner, thebladeAa-nd pollB serving as an extended handle for said driver. Furthermore, these parts A 13 act also as a handle when the claw N is used for extracting tacks or small nails.

I claim as my invention- 1. A combination tool consisting of the hatchet A, having a pair of levers, F F, pivoted thereto at G, which handles terminate with jaws H H, as herein described.

2. The hatchet A, hc ving a cutter-bit, .I, a pair of levers, F F, and pivot G, in combination with the jaws II II, rabbeted, respectively, at I I, as herein described.

3. A combination tool consisting of the IOO J, and sockets D D, Which sockets receive the joint-plates E E of levers F F, said handles being provided with rabbeted jaws H I H I, I 5 and being pivoted to said hatchet by a bolt, G, as herein described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.-

ANDREXV J. BRYANT.

itnesses JAMES II. LAYMAN, THOMAS S. SPIVEY. 

